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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
Brief Mention.

Hog cholera is reported in Wethersfield town
ship and other places in Henry county.
The sixteenth annual convention of the Catho-
lie Total Abstinence Union of the State will be
held in Ottawa Sept z
Conductor Barry. of the Wabash, was caught
under the wheels of an engine at Pekin, on Fri
day, and was SO badly injured that he died. His
body WAS taken TO Havana.
Senator Cullom. Governor Oglesby and nearly
all the State officers. with many other dis
tingished men, will go to Dixon to attend the
reunion of the soldiers and sailors of Northern
Illinois, Aug %. "A and %.
Walter Hopkins, Of Peoria. dealer in boots.
shoes and mems furnishing goods, has made an
assignment. His liabilities are So 300 aud as
sets 49, 600. The principal creditor is Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Kuhn, of Chicago, $1,100 loaned money.
Elias Ford, n well-known farmer residing near
Shannon, killed almost instantly by the
kick of horse. His head crushed in, and
he scarcely knew what hit him. Deceased was
about fifty years old. He left widow and ten
children.
The Rev. C. B. Jones' who left Danville for
Newport, KY. last February has been unable
TO hear from his wife, whom he left behind until
he was settled in hts church. since mis- de-
parture He has sent a description of his tardy
spouse to the sheriff, requesting him to look her
up. Mr.. Jones thinks she is probably living with
some other man.
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A Fortified Tree Dug Up.
Calistoga (Cal.) Independent.

LaIlstOga (LaI.J independent.
While digging well for the Franz valley
district school, July 90 at depth of four feet
lava was encountered. After digging in this to
the depth of ten feet the body of tree original
ly two feet or more in diameter was found en-
tirely enveloped by the lava. The wood had
been carbonized throughout, and broke I'D Quick
1y when exposed to the air. It had shrunk from
the surrounding lava, the latter plainly showing
the original size of the tree, or that to which
the wood was reduced when the lava ceased to
further press in upon it. None who saw the
wood could name the variety. Scientists have
not ventured as far as we have read to give the
date of the numerous Qualifications of wood at
the Petriied Forest. comparatively short dis
lance from where the well above mentioned was
dug. What, them can be said of the age of this
wood, found fourteen feet beneath the surface
and under lava perhaps TIN own up at date an
terror to that upon which the petrifed trees of
the forest restl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
Cold Facts About Mary Stuart.

London Truth.
Some time ago in the Sixteenth century there
fourished Queen of Scotland called Mary Stu
art. Rumor says that she was good looking,
but such detailed information as can be obtained
tends TO throw doubt upon the point. IF she
had lived in the present day she would probably
have figured in the divorce court, and might
have been indicted as an Access
sorry TO the murder of her own husband.
She harbored designs avowedly hos
tile to the government of this country,
and the government of this country.
which was also a woman. having the luck Co get
hold of her. capped her into prison She con
tinued to plot against the said government, and
was put to death The Dowager- Marchioness
of Runtly is now running Women's Tercen-
tenary Offering to the memory of this exemplary
female. and anvites subscriptions of friends, to
los for the purpose. I don't know why any
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
ILLINOIS.

Evidence that Jesse McGrue Was Murdered
Searching for the Criminal.
CLINTON. Aug. 20.-Since the discovery Of the
dead body of Jesse McGrue on the banks of Salt
creek. this city. last Sunday, ample circum-
stances have arisen for presumine that he
murdered. At the time he was found there
were two bullet holes in his body, one in his
head, the other in the chest, and a revolver
lay beside him, it believed he committed
suicide. A coroner's jury returned verdict in
accordance with such belief. The matter has
been placed in the hands of detective,
who, it is understood, has vigorously undertaken
to bring the criminals to justice Whoever the
murderers were, if indeed McGrue was muir
dered. they have concealed their tracks most eff
fectually.
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with get tired OF you and turn you off come bach.
to your old home and you shall be provided for !"
While these remarks were being made Tom
was protesting loudly against being handed over
against his will. declaring with noisy vehemence,
thatif he was placed in his mothers charge he
would never play again for any one. After the
sightless musician was formally transferred,
and the papers in the signed, Tom refused
to be governed by any but his old guardian. He
would not go out of the courtroom, and when at
last he was gotten out he declined to enter the
carriage which was waiting for him outside
Then Mr.. Bethune with tears yelling from his
dark eyes and rolling down his face talked
kindly to the semi-idIotc pianist, and the stub
born will was bent for Tom took his seat in the
vehicle, amid shower of promises that ne
should return if he didn't like it. He was driven
York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
BOLsTERING UP CLEVELAND.
The Assumption of a Mugwump Organ Rnde-
ly Punctured.

Baltimore Civil-service Reformer
1t having been loosely said that President
Cleveland has practically made ''clean sweep"
of postmasters. the New York Evening Post de-
clares this to be a grossly unjust statement,
and quotes figures to us TO prove it So follows:
Nearly half of all the places under the federal
government Earei postofices." the editor reminds
US, "the number of which has reached the great
total of 50. 49," OF this number, So 79l or
about two-thrds of all, have received their COM
missions from President Cleveland's adminstra-
ton during the first two years of it's occupation
In spite of certain striking comparisons made
by the Evening Post with former Republican
admnistrations-notably President Grants Sec
ond term-we are not prepared to admit that
the exhibit of figures prepared by contem-
porary is encouraging. Appointments have
been made by the administration in this one
branch of the service at the average rate of
over ], 800 per month, or fifty per day. AS the
working day in the department is only eight
hours, this means at the rate of about post
master every ten minutes As matter of fact
as the Evening Post proves, appointments were
made at nearly double that rate during the first
year of the administration This seems to be
rather quick work. We are disposed to believe
that it has never been equaed in the history of
the country. But the Evening Posts figures are
clearly misleading. In the first place there are
o great many thousand postofices which are as
much and often moro trouble than they are
worth to the incumbent. and which are not
sought after. Many are buried in the out-of-the
way. sparsely settled neighborhoods; others in
unhealthy districts, etc.
There is no temptation to change the post
not the ''exact facts"-that the ''nearly one
third of the remaining Republican postmasters
occupy most of these worthless Offices. More
over it would have been fairer for the Evening
Post to have arrayed the fgnres in regard to
the clerks, assistants, letter-carriers, etc To
set off the new Democratic postmaster at Phila-
delphia against the remaining Republican post.
mastmaster at Swampoodle and say that they
balance each other is to be absurd. II the
Swampoodle Republican is solus and the Phila-
delphia Democrat has under him q thousand
subordinates, all appointed to take the place of
dismissed Repub cans it would be fairer to say
that the President had made 1,001 changes in
Philadelphia against one fortunate Swampoodler
who chung to his place The Evening Post also
makes assumption. which it does not prove.
that all the postofices were filled by Repub-
licans when the Cleveland administration
assumed control
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The Special Features Of the Journal
are of Great Value.

The decisions of the Supreme and local courts are
carefully reviewed by special reporters and will be
accurate and comprehensive No attorney can afford
70 De without these reports in other way he
keep so fully informed and abreast of tho times.
In addition to its features the journal enioys
the services of of the best known writer's in the
literary field. among them many of the favorite con-
tributors to the leading magazines of tie country.
who viii furnish regular articles The increase in
space will permit the DAILY JOURNALto nav mora
attention TO its miscellany and selected reading than
ever. This viii be appreciated by the large class of
readers who are interested in other matters tina,
merely the and current political discussions of
the day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
NEARLY A MILLION AT STAKE.
The Title of Valuable Property in St. Paul In
Dispute-An Interesting Case.

Inc AIbie OF taIuaDle property IN st. Paul In
Dispute-An Interesting Case.
st. Paul. Mimi. Special.
A young Washingt lawyer, who has attained
some prominence in the Capital City, discovered
about year ago that he might become million
ARE if hs claims TO property in St Paul and
Minneapolis were satisfactorily established. His
name is Talimadge A Lambert. and he repre-
sents himself to be the son of David Lam bert,
who helped to organize the Territory of Mime
sofa, and afterward threw himself into the
Mississippi from the deck of the old steamer Dr.
Franklin. He has commenced proceedings to
establish his title to AIS acres on the shores of
Lake Phalen. His property is valued at at least
half million dollars The St. Paul harvester
works are located upon part of it, the st. Paul
q Duluth and the Minneapolis, Saltwater 6
Taylor's Falls railroad rights of way run through
it, Ames's outlets, Cruikshank's garden outlots
y. n. Roeere's addition and other property have
been plated upon If, and large number of per-
sons are affected by this suit.
The proceedings are directed against Washing
ton NJ. Stees, whose advent to this city and bus
mess dates from 1850 Judge Eller, Mr. Stees's
attorney, has been engaged in taking deposit
tions. David Lambert was q newspaper man of
Arkansas and Wisconsin. He came here in
1S48, and was candidate for the territorial Leg
1slature. man of considerable ability and liter
airy accomplishments, he was trusted friend of
Dr. Andrew Bell Patterson. an Episcopal clergy
man, of Princeton. N. j., who. in 1859, was rec
tor of St Pauls Church in this city DIR. Pat
terson had purchased some soldiers land war
rants which were drug upon the Eastern
market and they were sold over the bank coun-
eOiS 90 11oIi pIfo W PIoU dpIcC0 1n6So warrants
were each for 160 acres of land. and DR.. Patter-
son visited St Paul in 1849, hooked over the sit
uation. and then made David Lambert his agent
to locate his land warrants.
Mr.. Lambert located three land warrants Oct
IL, 1S49. and the following November he COM
mitted suicide. but instead of locating the war
rants in Dr. Pattersons name ne put them in
his own An effort made to have the proper
correction made in the government entries but
for some reason it was never made. A deed was
made out accordingly and duly recorded, and
Patterson midi nfo6
sion of his property in August, 1852. DIR. Pat
terson then sold it to Judge Lambert in Septem-
Der, and Judge Lambert sold it to Allan Pierce
in 1854 Allan Pierce sold it TO DIR. Davis of
Mississippi. from whom Washington Stees pur-
chased his 15S acres in 1867
The one proposition upon which young Lam
bert bases his claim to almost 81. 600. 900 worth
of nicely-lying real estate is that the probate
court had 20 equity jurisdiction and no power to
order the transfer of the land to Dr. Patterson
1t has been supposed that David Lambert had
no children when he died, and there is said to
have been affidavit in the hands of attorneys
from nephew that he died without issue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
COLONEL INGERSOLL.
Taking a More Serious View of Life as He
Gets On in Years.

Gets On in Years.
New York Letter in Boston Herald.
Another well known figure that sauutered up
to Mr.. Mackay's table the other evening and
renamed there for moment or two, was that
of Col Robert G.. Ingersoll whose face and form
familiar to at least nine tenths of the metro
politan populace. AS he walks along the street,
eight out of every ten people turn around and
stare after him. and the only reason why the
other two do not follow the same course lies in
the fact that they are so well acquainted
with lngersoll's presence not to
feel any further curiosity about him.
Ingersoll has changed remarkably within the
past year. At that distance back he had sue
ceeded in reducing himself, until from a notice
ably feshy man he had come down to the ordin-
ary portly proportions. The theory was given
out that he had brought about the change by
combining himself exclusively to a meat diets
other words, that Colonel Ingersoll had cut off
from his list of edibles all vegetable matter of
every kind. The certainly does not seem
to have been at all permanent. The great her
etic orator is fatter than he ever was before in
his life and moreover. he has grown rapidly
old. AS he walks from place to place, his
upon him ungracefully, and as though they
had oesn made for other man. In
gersoll, with all his superabundance Of tissue
used to be a rather natty and elegant being
Now, he looks more or less slouchy and careless
and he has also grown serious in his manner
In former days his face beamed continually
with smile of broad and expansive proportions
Now, he goes along with his hands folded
behind him, his eyes fixed upon the
pavement and an expression CT deep and solemn
meditation upon his countenance. He brIghteps
up. however when he meets anybody he knows
and the old look of genality comes back into his
face. They do say that since Inrersoll had his
severe illness last winter he has not been the
same man in the bright and airy carelessness of
his daily life. / do not mean by this that there
has been any alteration in his views
OF the hereafter 1t is merely that
his manner has changed, and
that he has grown to take a
more solemn and less light view of things. He
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
Minor Notes.

The annual meeting of the old settlers of Mi
ami and adjoining counties occurred on Satur-
day at Miarnitown. Much interest mani
tested by the 5000 present.
While returning from the soldiers reunion at
French Lick George Hawkins and Lorena Peck
received injuries from which she died in "a few
hours. Hawkins seriously injured, but will
recover.
At tina DE PAW gas wells. abandoned in Har-
rison county, the gas pressure is so great that
salt water is thrown out a distance of fifty feet
high. 1t the intention of the De Pauws to
put up salt-works there this fall but the will con-
test will prevent this until the matter is de-
termIned 1t is estimated that salt water that
could be converted into forty tons of salt per
week goes 10 waste at these works
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
INDIANAAND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
All Kinds in the Two States.
Reunion of the Thirty-Third Regiment at
Bethany Park-Suicide by Hanging-Evi-
dence that Jesse McGrue Was Murdered.


The Recent Reunion of the Thirty-Third Reg
iment at Bethany Park.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
MARTINsvILLE. Aug 20.-A reunion of the
surviving members Of the Thirty-third Indiana
Volunteers closed yesterday evening. after a
session of two days, at Bethany Park. The
comrades began assem- bling on Wednesday even
ing, and dispersed by the late trains of Friday.
The two days were occupied with speech-mak-
ing. boatriding. bathing in the lake, and general
sociability and chats of war times The princi-
pal addresses were delivered by General Coburn,
Colonel Burton, and Lieutenant Collins, of Mar
tinsville. General Coourn made a complete and
comprehensive exposition of the battle or
Thompson's Station, in which battle he was or
dered to face largely superior force of rebels
against his will aud better judgment
Colonel Burton spoke of the march from Atlanta
maDd of the regiment Lieutenant Collins spoke
of the march from Savannah Raleigh
The regiment decided to hold annual reunions
at Bethany Park They also adopted badge,
which is to be metallic and will consist of the
image 90 a wildcat, below which is suspended a
scroll, inscribed upon which is the word, AT
lanta" The scroll supports star of metallic
border. with n blue center. The wildcat signi
ges the first engagement of the regiment; AT
lanta tells the story that the Thirty-third was
the first body Of Union soldiers enter that
city, and the blue star signifies the Third divi-
sion of the Twentieth Corps. In the center of
the star is the number So signifying the regi-
ment.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
Blind Toms Transfer.

A very exciting yet pathetic scene was wit
messed IN the United States courtroom in Alex
andria on Tuesday, when Blind Tom the negro
pianist was formally turnediover to Mr.. A. j.
Lerche. the counsel for his new guardian Mrs
Elsie Bethune, of New York Mr. James
Bethune appeared in court, bringing Tom with
him, and delivering his charge 20 United States
Marshal Scott, saying. as he hid so:
Tom, | nns deliver you to the court and to
that thief. indicating Mr. Lerche, who also
represented Toms mother.
II don't want any reflections, commenced Mr.
Lerche, when Mr. Bethune continued:
But, Tom, If the people who you are going
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
Committed Larceny while Drunk.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2L-Joseph Elliott. deputy
chief clerk in the Army building and Harold
Thompson, travelling salesman, were arrested
late to night for having stolen a gold watch
from Pat Egan, a well known politician, In the
latter's saloon, liz University place. The pris-
oners. with another man. said Co be a prominent
politician went into Egan's place. last Friday,
while intoxicated. and when they departed took
Egan's vest, containing the watch. The prison
srs confessed their guilt Both are we'll of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
Sreansllin Nerra

QUEENsTowN, Aug. 2L-The steamer Ser
ria, from New York, arrived to-day on her
way Liverpool
New YORK, Aug 21-Arrived: Aurania from
Liverpool; Bohemia from Hamburg; Anchoria
from Glasgow; La Champagne, from Havre
LONDON Aug 81. The steamer Normandie,
from New York for Havre passed the Lizard
point to-day. The steamer Rugia, from New
York for Hamburg, arrived at Plymouth. The
steamship L. Caland, from New York for Rot
terdam, passed the Sicily islands to-day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
The Gar Teaching His Daughter.

Vienna Dispatch in London Daily telegraph.
letter from ST. Petersburg to one of the VII
emma papers SAYS thar the Gar is much alb
sorbed just by giving lessons on the piano
forte TO his little daughter, the Grand Duchess
Xenia, who has made marked progress under
her fathers instruction. His Majesty dislikes
the classical composers, and teaches his daugh-
ter exclusively dance music Inc child has
been pro missed a Iong-coveted bracelet if she
learns favorlte waltz of the Cars by next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
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been and it ranks in size with the papers the
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tanned the distinction of being the leading newspaper
of Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
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The city news viii be given much more fully than
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-22
Didn't Mind the Fly.
PHILADELPHIA News

AS was riding in street-car with frs.nd
yesterday morning, | noticed that a fat passen-
ger who sat opposite us was gazing in our direc-
ton with an air of stupefied amazement I
nervously adjusted my neckte, felt my collar
and had a general feeling of uneasiness until I
became convinced that the obese strangers
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English woman of the Nineteenth century should
contribute to such object; but, If any do. /
hope. with the light OF another Wofnan's Offer
ing upon us, the testimonial will take the form
of statue of Lord Darnlev.
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w arning.

How many people ruin their stomachs by
swallowing cold drinks on a hot summer day,
when they could avoid all danger by adding ten
drops of ANGosTURA BITTERs, besides i'm parting
q delicious flavor to their summer beverages.
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Believing thoroughly tina. aterests of the State
and Nation can best be subs, red by Republican adj
mnistration the JOURNAL will heartily devote itself
to the championship of that partys principles, and
will do all in its to compass Republican
It's eyes shall rot be blinded. however by partisan
bias and it viii not hesitate to crticise Republican
wrong doing wherever it may occur.